David Weldon: “I thought freedom was worth fighting for. I thought, when we saw all those Iraqis risk their lives to go and vote and…”

“I thought freedom was worth fighting for. I thought, when we saw all those Iraqis risk their lives to go and vote and establish a government and establish a Constitution and to have, possibly, freedom of speech, that was something worth our level of effort. If you actually go over there and talk to those people, you find out that it is a minority that is trying to break the will of this body. That is what is going on. What I object to in this bill is the way you have brought this to the floor. You have got subsidies for spinach. You know, my constituents are asking, who put that in the bill, Popeye? Why don't you let us have a vote on whether or not we want to attach funding for peanut farmers and funding for spinach farmers to a war supplemental? Yes, why don't we have a vote on the Murtha language? Why are you denying us an opportunity, this body, a Democratic institution, the ability to say collectively as a majority, we think this kind of language is what we want to have? I personally think that is a disgrace, what is going on here. I am going to vote against this bill.”